According to IT House, Sam's Club recently demonstrated a technology that uses AI to identify the contents of buyers' shopping carts for "receipt verification" at CES 2024, and the related technology has been applied to 10 Sam's Club stores in North America, claiming to significantly drop the queue at the store's exit. Sam's Club said it is accelerating the use of the technology and expects to add the system to more than 600 of its stores within this year to replace traditional ticket inspectors.

Mercedes-Benz Reveals NFT Gallery and AI Voice Assistant in Cars Mercedes-Benz has unveiled an update to its in-car virtual assistant at CES 2024, featuring an NFT gallery and an AI voice assistant with "emotional profiles." The MBUX Virtual Assistant, powered by generative AI and the MB.OS, offers four emotional modes for interaction. It learns driver preferences and can activate personalized features such as radio stations and seat massagers.

German automaker Mercedes-Benz unveiled its Non-fungible Token-enabled MBUX Collectibles in-car app at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, where owners were able to showcase their Non-fungible Token collections, including the NXT Non-fungible Token launched at Mercedes-Benz's EthereumBlockchain, on the vehicle's dashboard, Golden Finance reported. In addition, Mercedes-Benz also showcased the MBUX virtual assistant powered by generative AI, which is expected to be launched in early 2025.

According to a report by Golden Ten Data on January 14, Huatai Securities Research Report believes that compared with CES in 2023, the popularity of electric vehicles has drop this year, and the release of new cars and concept cars has decreased, but there are many new products and technologies focusing on intelligent driving and intelligent cockpit, and lidar, computing chips, AI cockpit, and display are still several major directions of components. In addition, AI technology and hydrogen energy may become the theme of future automobiles. In addition to the display and application of hydrogen energy by Japanese car companies in the past, Hyundai Motor brought its vision of "hydrogen-powered vehicles" and "software-driven transformation" to hydrogen energy at this exhibition.

According to a report by Jin Shi on January 12, during the 2024 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Liu Jun, executive vice president of Lenovo Group and president of China, said that in the first half of this year, Lenovo will successively release personal agents (personal agents) and AI PCs embedded in personal large models. He believes that at this stage, the AI PC products released by various manufacturers, including Lenovo, belong to the AI Ready stage products, and truly mature AI PCs should be embedded with personal agents, large models, or can realize multi-modal natural language interaction. Liu Jun said that AI PC is Lenovo's most important product this year, and it attaches great importance to it internally, invests huge R&D resources, and builds an ecosystem in addition to developing software.

Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said at CES 2024 that smartphones integrating generative AI capabilities could create a new upgrade cycle in 2024, as reported by the Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily on January 12. Amon said that most of the channel inventory correction is over, at least in the Android phone market.

According to IT House on January 12, Swarovski today displayed the Optik AX Visio telescope at the CES 2024 venue, which is said to be the world's first binoculars capable of identifying birds, priced at $4,799. It is reported that this 10 x 32 telescope has 10x magnification, up to 15 hours of battery life, and has a built-in NPU neural processing chip, which claims to be able to identify 9,000 species of birds, and can label bird species and information in real time.

According to a report by the Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily on January 12, Liu Jun, executive vice president of Lenovo Group and president of China, said at the 2024 CES exhibition that Lenovo is comprehensively promoting the "one and multi-terminal" smart terminal strategy to enable everyone to have AI. Liu Jun explained that "unity" has two meanings: the first refers to building a unified AI OS on top of personal large models and AI application ecosystems, and the second meaning is that the tasks of individual agents will shuttle through multiple AI terminals to provide services to users across devices. "Multi-terminal" includes the most representative AI-embedded terminal devices such as AI PCs, AI tablets, AI mobile phones, smart large screens, and AIoT.

According to a report by 36Kr on January 11, Alibaba's AI foreign trade products were unveiled at the CES show in the United States, and a PC trial version was provided for overseas buyers on the spot. According to reports, the AI foreign trade products unveiled this time will respond to buyers' inquiries in real time and provide immediate answers during the procurement process of overseas buyers. In the future, the AI procurement assistant will also launch functions such as sourcing agent and AI documentary ordering.

According to a report by China Securities News on January 9, Nvidia, AMD, Intel, Qualcomm and other global Computing Power leading manufacturers launched the latest chip products and technical solutions at the 2024 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2024). Industry insiders said that at present, AI Computing Power has become a rigid demand. The wave of generative AI has intensified competition in the Computing Power market, and related companies have launched multi-dimensional competition in hardware capabilities and application markets.

According to a report by the Financial Associated Press on January 10, Walmart, the world's largest retailer, released its latest AI technology products at the Consumer Electronics Show CES 2024 on Tuesday, Eastern time. The company has launched a generative AI tool that allows shoppers to search for products by specific use cases, rather than just looking for one product at a time. The tool is built using a range of large language models, including Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Service. In addition, Walmart has launched a home replenishment system that uses artificial intelligence technology to ensure that customers' online shopping carts are filled with the right items at the right time, making shopping easier.

On January 9, stock giant Getty Images announced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) the launch of Generative AI by iStock, a new tool for small businesses, designers, and marketers, powered by NVIDIA Picasso. It is reported that any licensed visual content generated by a customer is covered by the $10,000 legal guarantee of iStock's standard.

SK hynix held a press conference titled "Memory, the Power of AI" during CES 2024, and SK hynix President and CEO Kwak Noh-Jung said that storage plays a key role in the AI era, and SK hynix plans to launch a "custom storage platform" to provide customized AI storage solutions as customers' demand for diverse storage products grows.

According to IT Home on January 8, antivirus software company McAfee recently launched a new project "Project Mockingbird" (robinbird) to detect and block AI-generated voice scams, and the official claim that the success rate of the project is more than 90%. It is reported that "Mockingbird" has AI-driven "Depth Fake" audio detection technology, and McAfee CTO Steve Grobman introduced that this technology will be officially announced during CES 2024.

According to the "Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily" reported on January 9, at the CES 2024 exhibition in the United States, NVIDIA released a series of new products, among which NVIDIA ACE microservices debuted. It is reported that this is a technology platform that uses generative AI to make virtual digital humans, and the current partners with ACE include miHoYo, NetEase Games, Palm Fun Technology, Tencent Games, Ubisoft and other enterprises.

At CES 2024 in Las Vegas, Sony announced the development of in-camera Digital Signature technology, which can effectively create a "birth certificate" for images captured by its device, verifying the origin of content. While it may not be technically called an Non-fungible Token, it resembles the core concept of Non-fungible Token.

AI New Intelligence News, Volkswagen issued a press release, announcing that it will show its first cars to integrate ChatGPT into its IDA voice assistant at the 2024 Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2024), which will be held from January 9 to 12. It is reported that technology partner Cerence's Cerence Chat Pro is the foundation for this new feature, providing the integration of intelligent automotive-grade ChatGPT. Volkswagen says that starting in the second quarter of 2024, the company will be the first mass-produced automaker to offer ChatGPT as a standard feature in many mass-produced cars.

Mercedes-Benz will showcase its new AI virtual assistant, MBUX, at the upcoming 2024 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2024), as reported by Forbes on January 4. It is reported that the system is seen as the next generation version of its complete multimedia system, with the goal of providing users with an unprecedented personalized service.

According to Bloomberg, on January 4, Microsoft announced that it would add a button to the Windows keyboard to activate its artificial intelligence Copilot service, and the first devices with the new keys will be available this month. It is reported that the Copilot key will replace the right Control key on standard PC keyboards, which is the first change in keyboard layout since Microsoft added the Windows/Start key in 1994, highlighting the company's commitment to artificial intelligence. Microsoft's hardware partners will be showcasing Windows 11 PCs with the Copilot key at CES Tech Conference in the coming days.

AMD announced that it will hold a CES 2024 presentation at 7 a.m. Pacific time on January 8, and officials said that at this CES 2024 speaking event, AMD Chairman and CEO Dr. Lisa Su and Senior Vice President and General Manager of Computing and Graphics Jack Huynh will discuss the future of AI PCs.

According to IT Home on January 3, Neuchips recently issued a press release, announcing that it will participate in the 2024 CES exhibition and will launch new Raptor Gen AI accelerator cards and Evo PCIe accelerator card LLM products. It is reported that the Raptor Gen AI accelerator card was previously known as N3000, which helps enterprises deploy large language models (LLMs) at a small cost in the case of existing solutions.

LG recently developed a small bipedal AI robot, which is scheduled to be displayed at CES in 2024, as reported by the webmaster's home on December 29. This robot is designed to monitor and interact with pets. The robot has a bipedal design that allows it to move freely around the home. It is equipped with cameras and artificial intelligence technology, which is able to monitor the behavior of pets and interact with them in real-time. Users can remotely control the robot through the mobile app, observe the pet's activities, and communicate with the pet through the robot. LG's bipedal AI robot also has other smart features. It can learn the preferences and habits of pets through AI technology and provide customized services according to their needs. In addition, the robot can also detect the health of the pet and provide relevant suggestions and reminders.

According to a report by the Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily on December 15, Gigabyte, a motherboard and graphics card manufacturer, recently announced that it will showcase its latest AI superchip servers, edge computing and cloud-native architecture servers, advanced cooling equipment for data centers, and self-driving on-board computers at CES.

[ Strong non-agricultural data, why the unemployment rate is rising against the trend👀] The U.S. job market survey is mainly divided into: 📍Enterprise survey (CES, non-agricultural) 📍Telephone survey (CPS, unemployment rate) In the household survey of this telephone questionnaire, the unemployment rate rose to 3.7%. In terms of details, the number of employed people decreased by 310,000 and the number of unemployed increased by 440,000. In addition, the labor force population further rose to 166.8 million, a record high, but the non-labor force population did not change much. This shows that the American people continue to look for jobs in the labor market, not leaving the labor market, and the long-term employment supply and demand structure is not easing. change After the release of the data, the probability of FedWatch suspending interest rate hikes in June rose to 74.7% (35.8% in the previous week), while the probability of raising interest rates by 25 basis points in July and September in the second half of the year is about 50%, which shows that: The divergence of non-farm payrolls and household surveys, as well as the easing of the tight structure of employment supply and demand, and the downward trend in wages have not changed, so that market expectations have increased towards the "skip scenario" of Fed member Waller mentioned in the June monthly report (considering the jump in credit tightening) After June and decide whether to raise interest rates in July according to the data) In conclusion, the non-agricultural data has increased the probability of pausing interest rate hikes. The next focus is whether the core CPI will fall in May? However, after the banking crisis, the Federal Reserve has gradually increased its focus on the economy. Even if it raises interest rates in June, it is very likely that it will send a signal to suspend interest rate hikes in the post-meeting meeting🤔️ Hope this helps you If you like ✅Follow 👍Press up #世界currency##币圈 #常经##非农